HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

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A RARE AND UNUSUAL GILT-BRONZE VESSEL AND COVER
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
The egg-form vessel is raised on three short tapered feet, and cast with a raised bow-string band on top of a plain and wider band encircling the body at the midsection, which is interrupted by a ring handle with a projecting tab. The domed cover is surmounted by three small rings, which would serve as feet when the cover is inverted.
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired in Palm Beach, Florida, in the late 1980s.

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Lot Essay

Compare the gilt-bronze pear-shaped vessel of similar small size (11 cm. high), which like the present vessel is raised on three cabriole legs and has a ring handle, illustrated in Zhongguo Wenwu jinghua dachuan (Highlights of Chinese Archaeological Objects), Hong Kong, 1994, p. 302, no. 1084, where it is dated to the Western Han dynasty and described as a mou.

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